smallest articles of a particular volume will be, upon the different kind, throughout the volume. manner in which the different classThe following are the principales of articles are republished. He mutilations, in in addition to the pre- cannot but observe the scrupulous ceding, which we have discovered, care, with which insignificant ABSURDITY-A small part of American additions or alterations this article is struck out. in the scientifick articles are distinguished by brackets; while the theological articles, and such as are connected with them, in which the most important changes have been made, are mutilated without such notice to the reader. ACTUAL SIN-This article has suffered a small and not important retrenchment..... ADOPTION in Theology is shamefully mutilated, and an addition is made near the end of it, which ought to have been distinguished an American alteration. ADORATION absolute-A part of this little article has been lopped off. as AERIANS This article is also considerably mutilated; and of the next, AETIUS, we can say something more; for here the learned American editors, who "correct" and "revise" this edition, have, by expunging one of Rees' references to Gibbon's History, while they retain the other, fallen into the amusing absurdity of referring to that author with a ubi supra, when they have not mentioned his History before in the whole article! AFFIX in Grammar has several trifling alterations, which we leave the Hebrew scholar to estimate, and we finish our list with AGNOETAE, where there is a suppression,which most readers would think of importance. These are the principal variations of magnitude which we have noted in our copy of the Cyclopædia; but, as we have not gone through every article with equal attention, it is highly probable that many have escaped us. We shall close this part of our Review with a few general remarks. One of the first reflections, which the reader will make when he arrives at the end of this Why this difference? If the American editors do not agree with Dr. Rees in religious sentiments; if they believe his opinions to be such as the Scriptures do not warrant, let them openly confute him; but let them allow him to be heard as well as themselves, and above all let them not stigmatize themselves by undertaking to pass off their own sentiments as those of that learned divine or his associates. And we have the greater right, to demand of the American publisher (from his own prospectus) that a fair hearing should be given to all denominations of persons, especially upon theological questions; for in the United States religious sects are more various, and religious liberty is supposed to be enjoyed in a greater degree, than in almost any other place on the globe; and the American publisher of the Cyclopædia, among other recommendations of his edition, informs his subscribers that it is to be "adapted to this country;" from, which general recommendation, he surely could never mean to except the theological part of the publication -the very part which in this country should be the least tainted with prejudice. We shall now point out some of the principal additions and improvements in this edition. ters.” After half a dozen trifling arti- arrangement of the whole article to be more perDictionaries and Gazetteers that spicuous than that of the English are in every body's hands) which edition, which has been deservedly are wholly unworthy of a place in censured. this work, unless it is to contain a AFRICA has large and important complete system of Geography, we additions made to it from the tra: come to the life of Sir Ralph vels of Mr. Browne and Mr. HorneABERCROMBY, which is a consi- man ; This, we believe, will be derable article, but appears to be thought the most valuable of the taken almost verbatim from a has- American additions. ty English publication of little au- Such are the principal improve thority, entitled “ Public Charac- ments we have remarked in this As a variation from Dr. portion of the work. Rees' edition, it ought to have We observed in the beginning been designated, and the authori- of our review, that Mr. Bradford ty cited, as is generally done in had resolved not to content him his biographical articles. self with giving to his countrymen The article ABORTION has a mere copy of Dr. Rees' Cyclo been somewhat énlarged. pedia, but promised amendments ABSORBENTS is considerably and additions. We presúmed from augmented, and the additional this, that he had engaged " literary matter is very properly put in and scientifick characters,” who brackets. Whether the article is would faithfully perform this task; improved, we leave to the decision of but, without calling in question gentlemen of the faculty ; for when their competency, we are sorry to doctors disagree, Reviewers should find they have been so negligent as not be obliged to decide. We Ve to suffer many errours of the Engcannot, however, commend the lish edition to be copied into theirs national vanity, displayed in these in the most servile manner. additions ; still less do we approve They tell us, after Dr. Rees, unof the contemptuous insinuation der the article Abgarus, that the against almost all the medical cha- authenticity of that prince's corracters in England, who seem to respondence with our Saviour, has be charged with adopting the theo- been admitted by archbishop Wake, ry of cutaneous absorption merely although the contrary is the fact, from prejudice, because “ they and the mistake has been pointed were no doubt natives of England, out in an English review of this and were “ bred up in the firm work.* belief of it." Under the article Abo, a town The article ACADEMIES has al- of Sweden, Dr. Rees inentions a so several useful additions ; but the seminary of learning as an “ acadSince writing the above, we have led a university, according to the emy,” which should have been calseen and perused the Pennsylvania Indefinition given by the author, unaugural Dissertations referred ro in this article, and, whatever the fact may be der the article Academy in the respecting the absorption of oil of tur. same volume. It is a little extrapentine and camphor by the skin, we ordinary the American editors are far from thinking that the experi. should not have taken notice of it, ments there related satisfactorily estab. Jish the fact, that mercury is not ab. sorbed by or through the skin. , *See Brit. Critick, vol xxvi. p. 237. when it has been called a university ACADEMY French-Mention is At the close of the article" AcCENT, in Grammar," is this observation that "as minutely as the accents of words have been studied, those of sentences seem to have been utterly overlooked." We were surprised at this remark, and especially to find nothing here said of the labours of Walker, who has certainly investigated this very subject (if we apprehend the force of the remark) with great success. This is, upon the whole, an admirable article one of the best in the work; but the remark above quoted is certainly incorrect. ACT of Faith, or auto da feWe are here informed (in what we take to be an extract from Dr. Geddes Tracts) of the manner of burning hereticks, as practised by the Inquisition; and in the course of the narrative it is said, that " a scaffold is erected in the Terreiro de Paco [Terreiro do Paço] big enough for two or three thousand people," &c. As this paragraph here stands, it does not appear where, or what, the Terreiro do Paço is, and the uninformed reader would be likely to conclude that it is an appropriate place, in all Roman Catholic countries, for burning hereticks; whereas the fact is, and we presume it so appears in the Tracts here quoted, that the Terreiro do Paço is a publick square in Lisbon; and, we presume, Dr. Geddes is here describing the ceremony of burning, as practised in Lisbon, and not in Roman Catholic countries in general. It would have been proper, also, for the information of the younger class of readers, to have added to Dr. G.'s account, that this horrible ceremony has not been witnessed in Lisbon, nor, we believe, in any other Catholic country, for many years. ACOSTA, Joseph-We are here informed, that Acosta wrote a Naturall and Morall History of the West-Indies, and that it was first printed in Spanish, in 1591, and in French, in 1600. As this is one of the most interesting of the early works upon America, the American editors might have added, that it was also printed in English, with additions, London, 1604. ADOLPHUS, Frederick-king of Sweden, succeeded to the government in 1751, but was not the son of his predecessor Frederick, who had no children by his Queen Ul rica, sister of Charles XII. Ad. Ad. Fred. was chosen successor to the crown by the estates of the kingdom, in 1742 or 43, and bore the title of Crown-Prince, or heir to crown, until his accession to the throne, at the death of Frederick, in 1751. We have not selected these errours for the purpose of depreciating the value of the American edition, but as evidence of a degree of negligence that was not to have been expected in the second impression of a work, which the publisher sends out as "revised" and "corrected" by "several literary and scientifick" characters in this country. We are also the more particular in our remarks at this early stage of the publication that there may be the less room for animadversion in the succeeding volumes; and from the same motives we would observe, that the typographical errours seem to be Thore numerous than we have usually found in the Philadelphia editions; though, perhaps not more in proportion than should be expected, from the difficulty of execution of works like the present. We shall subjoin a list of the more important of those which we have noted in our copy. We have now finished our examination of the first half-volume of the Cyclopedia; and, notwithstanding we have, as our duty to the publick demanded, spoken without reserve of the very exceptionable manner in which certain parts of it are re-published, yet we cannot but commend the enterprising spirit of Mr. Bradford, who has ventured upon the re-publication of a work of such magnitude. While we frankly avow, too, that the conducting of the work, as this first half-volume has been, would, in our judgment, be a forfeiture of Vol. III. No. 9. 30 the liberal patronage it has obtained (to say nothing of it as an unjustifiable infringement of the rights of Dr. Rees, a fellow-member of the commonwealth of literature), we cannot but hope, that Mr. Bradford will, as it is in his power to do, by real improvements render his edition superiour to the original work; and that for the labour, anxiety, and hazard, to which he has exposed himself, he may meet with ample remuneration in the thanks, as well as the pecuniary favour of his countrymen. ERRATA. Article AALST or Alest. This second name, we believe, should be Alost. ABASCIA and ABASSA-In the references at the end of these two articles, for ABHKAS read ABKHAS. ABATEMENT in Law, for " cause or action," query, if not " cause of action." ABBAISSEUR, for quartour read quatuor. ABBREVIATOR, for manore read minore. ABBUTALS, for See ABBUTTALS read See ABUTTALS. Under the article ABERRATION, the rule for finding the aberration in right ascension is certainly incorrect, or rather defective. This is copied from Rees' edition, into which it appears to have been unsuspectingly transcribed from Hufton's Mathematical Dictionary. ABELARD, for dialects read dialectics! ABERNETHY in the Biog.Britan. is said to have been born on the 9th Oct. The Cyclopædia says, the 19th Oct. 1680. ABIEL, we believe, is a small town of Estremadura, and not of Beira, in Portugal. ACACIA bastard. The locust timber is here, by a whimsical mistake, said to be used for shiptunnels, instead of trennels, ACADEMICS, paragr. 3. For three sects of ACADEMIES, read three sects of ACADEMICKS, ACADEMY Naval; a reference is here made to ACADEMY, where (as is observed in an English Review) nothing further is said about Naval Academies. ACADEMY of Arts in New-York. We are here told of a valuable collection called the Piranessi & [and] Calcography. Is this the true name, or should it be Piranesian Calcography ? ACCELERATION, col. 4th, line 8th, from the bottom, for S: s read S: s. This errour is also copied from the English edition. ACHILLEUM in ancient geography is misplaced, as is also ACHILLEUS or AQUILEUS. ACRE (of land) col. 2. for æra of France, read area of France. ADDITION in Algebra contains a typographical error of some importance. In ADHESION in Philosophy, col. 3. at bottom, for b--4 read b=4. 8 An libitum is used in musick, not for "a piacere," but for à piacere. AeROPHOBIA for rapping read wrapping! &c. &c. AEROSTATION, firactice of, col.2. In this article there is a gross errour in the calculation of the force of ascension of balloons of different diameters. This error also is copied from Rees' edition, into which it was admitted from Hutton's Math. Dictionary. Near the bottom of the same column there is an errour copied also from the Eng. edit. It stands thus: "between 1 and 1 of it." It should be, "between 13 and " Among the omissions we should have mentioned the following articles: ACAM-See Acham and Akem. ACANNI OF AKANNI-Sec Achem; which are to be found in the Eng. edition, but not in the American. * Since the above was written, the publisher of the American edition has addrelled the following letter to a number of the fubfcribers in this town and vicinity in reply to their Remonstrance. Philadelphia, Aug, 21, 1806. "I take the liberty to answer your communi cation by affuring you that the fubfcribers will not, in future, have any caufe of complaint in regard to retrenchments, as I determined, immedi ately after the publication of the first half volume, to give the text of the English edition entire, ex cept when erroneous in point of fact; and, at the fame time,to counteract the ter dency of any ⚫ pernicious doctrines which it might be found to contain, by additional remarks and refer ences distinguished by crotchets from the orig 'inal article." "You will be pleased to communicate this information to the fubfcribers of the remonttrances and, at the fame time, affure them that, although no exertion has been, or fhall be wanting on my part to render the American edition fuperiour to the Englith copy, I with nut to bind a lingle fubfcriber to the fulfilment of his engagements with me, who believes that I have, in any way, intententionally, forfeited mine with the publick.. "Although, in the conducting of the American edition of the Cyclopædia, the Editors will not permit themselves to be forced from what they conceive their line of duty, by the trifling or cap tious objections of individuals, or the fear of loting fubfcribers, they will, always, pay respectful at tention to fuggeftions or remarks, originating in a defire to affift them in their labours, and tending to the improvement of the work, and the correc tion of errours which, but for fuch friendly ade vice, they might inadvertently commit. I have the honour to be, &c. SAMUEL F, BRADFORD." MR. Bowbric is already advantageously known to the publick by his improved Practical Navigator, a publication which has superseded every other of the kind in this country. The present work will not lessen his deserved ly high reputation. In our review of June last, we observed, that it was the complaint |